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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...final event of the evening was the water-polo game, which Harvard won, 5 to 2. The University team's chances were thought to be small on account of lack of practice. In the game, however, the men displayed excellent teamwork, and their superiority was evident throughout...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE WON SWIMMING MEET | 3/4/1909 | See Source »

...novice chess tournament postponed from last Monday will begin today in Grays 20. On account of the large number of entries the men will be divided into sections, two men from each section being eligible to continue in the second round. All who have entered will be notified concerning the time of their games and the result of the drawings. Cups will be awarded the winner and runner-up by the chess team management...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Beginning of Novice Chess | 3/1/1909 | See Source »

Harvard and Yale will play the second of the two annual basketball games tonight at 8 o'clock in New Haven. Yale easily won the first game in Cambridge on February 12 by 22 to 8. A change has been made in the order of the University team on account of Captain Allen's illness and Webber will be at left guard tonight. The Yale line-up, with the exception that Drew has replaced Strobridge, is the same as in the first game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FINAL GAME IN BASKETBALL | 2/26/1909 | See Source »

...regulation which keeps members of the graduate schools out of University athletics has so many advantages that it should on no account be abolished, but an exception to it should be made for the sake of men who qualify for their degrees in three years. Such men may wish to enter one of the graduate departments in their fourth year at Cambridge, but if they do so they are debarred from playing on the University teams. In other College activities they are considered Seniors, while as regards athletics they are treated as graduates. On the other hand, if the pressure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN OBJECTIONABLE RULE | 2/24/1909 | See Source »

...York, 8 to 2, and Brae Burn, 3 to 0. The first two league games were played early in January. Columbia was defeated, 5 to 1, and Princeton, 3 to 2. Of the games scheduled for February, that with Cornell was cancelled and that with Dartmouth postponed on account of the weather. Lately the team has had evening practice in the Stadium by are-light...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO LEAGUE HOCKEY GAMES | 2/20/1909 | See Source »

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